Trusted to Learn: a Qualitative Study of Clerkship Students' Perspectives on Trust in the Clinical Learning Environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trust informs supervision decisions in medical training. Factors that influence trust differ depending on learners' and supervisors' level. Research has focused on resident trainees; questions exist about how medical students experience entrustment.

Objective

This study examines how clerkship students perceive supervisors' trust in them and its impact on their learning.

Design

Qualitative study using individual semi-structured interviews.

Participants

Clerkship medical students at the University of California, San Francisco.

Approach

We invited 30 core clerkship students to participate in interviews (October 2017 to February 2018) eliciting examples of appropriate, over-, and under-trust. We coded and analyzed transcripts using thematic analys

SUBMITTER: Karp NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502927 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature